It's hard to say what was more amusing: seeing Justin Hawkins do a handstand on the drum platform, moving his legs back and forth like scissors-or to watch him wail on guitar, while he was being carried around on some guy's shoulders, for night closer "Love on the Rocks with No Ice."

Right before the Encore, Hawkins took a towel, rubbed it ferociously where the sun don't shine, and then tossed it into the crowd. How much do you think that'd go for on eBay?

Justin Hawkins, frontman for British band The Darkness, had some choice words to say in a Journal Sentinel interview for those who think his glam rock group is a joke.

But let us examine some of the damning evidence at the band's Rave show Saturday, shall we? | Jan. 27, 2013»Read Full Article

Early in Friday's opening-night performance of Alchemist Theatre's "King Lear," Bo Johnson's aged king called for the map demonstrating his intended division of Britain among his three daughters. Lear's attendants dutifully unfurled it — with the bottom at the top and the top at the bottom. When they tried to hang the map up, it kept falling down.

Director Leda Hoffmann confirmed during intermission that this sequence wasn't planned. But such a topsy-turvy world aptly illustrates the disorder that descends on Britain once the hot-tempered Lear banishes his beloved Cordelia, counting on his remaining two daughters to keep him and Britain safe. | July 13, 2013»Read Full Article